Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
SURROUNDED
surrounded, encircled
(adjective) confined on all sides; “a camp surrounded by enemies”; “the encircled pioneers”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
surrounded
simple past tense and past participle of surround
Source: Wiktionary
SURROUND
Sur*round", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrounding.] Etym: [OF. suronder to overflow, LL. superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves, overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the influence of E. round. See Super-, and Undulate, and cf. Abound.]
1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. Milton.
3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] Fuller.
4. (Mil.)
Definition: To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
Syn.
– To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.
Sur*round", n.
Definition: A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc. [U.S.] Baird.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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